Same Time Next Year Quotes

“It’s just that lately I feel a little left behind. Like everyone is checking off the boxes of life, and my pencil is broken. Or I didn’t bring one to class at all.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“My mother raised me to be an unholy terror on the ice but a gentleman as soon as I take off my skates. Like a fucking Canadian should be, she’d say.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Once you go hockey boy, you never go back.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I’m obsessed with eating her out. And I’ve never even gotten the opportunity.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Whose seducing who now?” I say, just above the curve of her neck,”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“you’ll never be alone as long as I’m in the building.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You don’t have to stop me from looking at anyone but you, because I don’t want to look in the first place. Put parental controls on my phone, my laptop, block porn sites. Track my location. Lock my dick in a cage. I’ll do whatever it takes to make you realize I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying right here. I’ll make you feel secure until you realize it’s only ever going to be you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Can you not see that I’m starving to death for you? Can’t you tell I missed you so horribly that my family couldn’t even make me smile?”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Can you please try and piece together what you’re feeling and communicate it to me?”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“But go with him? To California?”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were trying to seduce me.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You found this way to overcome the past”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Now go out there and win.” My voice is thick with emotion when I tell her, “I already have.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You can’t forgo the risk when the potential reward is so great. That’s why people do it. Fall in love and get married. Because if you get it right, you end up with forty pictures on your wall of the same woman. You have a person.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“They must be the exception to the rule.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I’ll make you feel secure until you realize it’s only ever going to be you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I already have.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Love doesn’t erase the fear of the unknown, though.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You like the reassurance, Britta, so why shouldn’t I give you something that’s so easy? I’ve got nothing to hide, and I never will.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I guess . . . I think marriage is an honor. Someone putting that much faith in you and believing you can rise to the occasion is a rare thing. You know?”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Those are the moments when we’re the only two people in the world”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I’ll do whatever it takes to make you realize I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying right here. I’ll make you feel secure until you realize it’s only ever going to be you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Words. With women, problems need to be solved with words. My father taught me that lesson early and reiterated it throughout my life.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You love that I’m down bad, don’t you?”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Have you seen a hockey net? There is barely a sliver of daylight between it and the goalie. You can’t hesitate when you see opportunities. There is never time for finesse. Hence the tendency to be blunt.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Made you off limits, Britta. It’s a rule that is rarely invoked among the group. But once it’s done, it’s fucking done.” He leans over until our foreheads are a breath apart. “If you don’t like it, then stop being my dream girl.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I need you to remember that we’re permanent every time you look at this hand. I need you to know I’ve got your back, every minute of every hour.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“I just need you to know that . . . being married to you is the best thing that will ever happen to me.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You’re not having a beer or anything?” “I’m driving,” he says, appearing almost affronted that I would even suggest such a thing. “I’m driving my wife.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“What’s your favorite food?” I ask her. “Breakfast.” My lips jump. “That’s not necessarily a food.” “I love all of it equally.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year